rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart...
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Rheumatic Fever
and Rheumatic heart disease
Dr B.J. Mitchell Division Paediatric Cardiology
Dept. of Paediatrics and Child Health
University of Pretoria
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What is RF?
= Over-reaction of body’s immune system
against its own tissue
• Group A Streptococcal throat infection
• Body produces antibodies against
infection.
• Antibodies see heart and other tissue as
“foreign” and attack and damage it.
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Who gets RF?
• Mainly children 5 – 15 yrs old.
• “Third world” problem of Poverty:
– Overcrowding
– Poor nutrition
– Limited access to primary healthcare
• Genetic predisposition
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How do they present?
2 - 3 weeks after throat infection:
• Tiredness
• Poor appetite / weight loss
• Fever
• Painful joints
• Heart failure
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Modified Jone’s Criteria
5 Major Criteria
• Carditis
• Polyarthritis
• Sydenham chorea
• Erythema marginatum
• Subcut. nodules
5 Minor Criteria
• PR interval on ECG
• Arthralgia
• CRP/ ESR/ WBC
• Fever
• History of previous RF
DIAGNOSIS:
1. Evidence of Strep infection
2. Two Major / one Major and two minor criteria
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(Pan)Carditis
• Resting tachycardia
• Murmur
• ECG: PR prolonged, small complexes
• Heart failure – Oedema
– Hepatomegaly
– Dyspnoea
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Polyarthritis
• Large joints.
• Red, swollen, painful.
• Child won’t move.
• “Flits” from joint to
joint.
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Sydenham Chorea
• Girls > boys
• Emotional
• “Clumsy”
• Fidgety
• Abnormal movements
• Hippus
Basal Ganglia
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Erythema Marginatum
• Non-itchy rash
• Red margin
• Pale center
• “Swimming trunk”
distribution
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Subcutaneous nodules
• Rarely seen
• Painless, firm, mobile
• Extensor surfaces
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Prevention and treatment of
RF
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“Primordial” Prevention
• Socio-economic upliftment:
– Housing
– Hygiene
– Nutrition
• Access to healthcare
• Access to antibiotics
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Primary Prevention
• Diagnose GAS pharyngitis
• Treat it!
• Treat it correctly!
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Clinical diagnosis of GABS
Four Centor criteria:
1. Fever
2. Swollen, tender
anterior cervical
lymph nodes
3. Tonsillar exudate
4. Absence of cough
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Treatment of GAS Pharyngitis
Drug Dose Freq Route Duration
Benzathine
Penicillin G
< 27 kg: 600 000 IU
> 27 kg: 1,2 mil IU
Stat IMI Stat
Pen VK < 27 kg: 250 mg
> 27 kg: 500 mg
tds po 10 d
Amoxicillin 50 mg/kg
(max 1g)
od po 10 d
Cephalexin
25-100mg/kg/d tds po 10 d
AHA Guidelines Circulation March 24, 2009
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Penicillin Allergy Drug Dose Freq Route Duration
Clindamycin 20 mg/kg/d
(max 1.8 g/d)
tds po 10 d
Erythromycin < 27 kg: 125 mg
> 27 kg: 250 mg
qid po 10 d
Azithromycin 12 mg/kg/d od po 5 d
Clarithromycin 15 mg/kg/d
(max 250 mg bd)
bd po 10 d
AHA Guidelines Circulation March 24, 2009
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Treatment of Acute RF
• Antibiotics : Penicillin IM / po
• Bedrest to rest heart
• Anti-inflammatory drugs for arthritis
• Monitor disease activity
• Manage Chorea
• Treat CCF
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Treatment of Acute RF
Drug Dose Freq Route Duration
Benzathine
Penicillin G
< 27 kg: 600 000 IU
> 27 kg: 1,2 mil IU
Stat IMI Stat
Pen VK 50 – 100 mg/kg/day qid po 10 d
Clindamycin* 20 mg/kg/d
(max 1.8 g/d)
tds po 10 d
Erythromycin* < 27 kg: 250 mg
> 27 kg: 500 mg
qid po 10 d
AHA Guidelines Circulation March 24, 2009 * If allergic to Penicillin
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Follow-up after Acute RF
• Notify
• Prophylaxis plan
• Repeat ECHO after 3 – 6 mths
– Valve damage is progressive
– Often clinically silent!
• Mocambique: 10 x more RHD diagnosed with
Echo than clinically
N Engl J Med, Aug 2, 2007
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RF prophylaxis
AGENT DOSE ROUTE
Benzathine
Penicillin G
< 27 kg: 600 000 IU
> 27 kg: 1,2 mil IU
every 3 – 4 weeks
IMI
Pen VK 250 mg bd PO
Sulfadiazine* < 27 kg: 0,5 g daily
> 27 kg: 1,0 g daily
PO
Erythromycin* 250 mg bd PO
* If allergic to Penicillin
AHA Guidelines Circulation March 24, 2009
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Duration of Secondary
Prophylaxis
* If in high contact occupation
CATEGORY DURATION
1. CRHD with valve
replacement / repair
Lifelong
2. RF with carditis and
persistent valvular
disease
10 yrs after last ARF
episode or to age 40 yrs
(or lifelong*)
3. RF with carditis, no
residual valvular
disease.
10 yrs or until age 21 yrs
(whichever longer)
4. RF, no carditis, no
valvular disease.
5 yrs or until age 21 yrs
(whichever longer)
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT
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Tertiary Prevention
Management of chronic RHD:
• FOLLOW UP!
• Ensure COMPLIANCE!
• Watch for complications
• Surgery when needed
• ? Careers
• ? Pregnancy
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Compliance
Typical prescription:
• Lasix 20mg tds po
• Slow K 1 tab bd po
• Digoxin 0.125mg daily po
• Capoten 12.5mg tds po
• Pen VK 250mg bd po
• Warfarin 5mg daily po
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Could you do it?
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Surgery
• Valve repair
– Preferable
– No Warfarin needed
• Valve replacement
– Often inevitable
– Need Warfarin lifelong!
– Repeated every 15 – 20 yrs
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Pregnancy?
• High risk for mother with heart disease
• Warfarin is teratogenic
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• PREVENTABLE disease
• Children still die of this in SA
or
survive with debilitating heart disease
• SBAH: one valve replacement per month
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• Primary healthcare
• Education
• Identify pts with RHD
• F/up prophylaxis plans
Socio-economic
upliftment
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REMEMBER
Prevention is better than cure!
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